And they rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians: and when they had come to the farthest part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there.
If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we remain sitting here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us give ourselves up to the army of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.
And the prince that is among them shall carry upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go out: they shall dig through the wall to carry their things out thereby: he shall cover his face, so that he does not see the ground with his eyes.
But if he be poorer than your estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
The LORD shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face: they shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways.
And David struck them from the twilight even until the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, except four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.